Category Archives: teaching

We are really excited as Genevieve gave a keynote at #ScratchBUD2017 on our datadrivendance project and specifically spoke about [pain]byte. #ScratchBUD2017. Scratch Conference 2017 in Budapest powered by @EPAM August 24-25, 2017 The 2017 Scratch Conference is a unique opportunity to meet other Scratch educators…

What a day! Starting off with a fairly open brief to the young creatives “create your own light and sound installation”. We started off with their interests in music and sound by creating music and sound effects using Beats with…

RI Masterclass at London MET University We love giving RI masterclasses at readysaltedcode. This is our 3rd masterclass but our first at London MET University. A big thank you to the fantastic student ambassadors at the University, they were brilliant.…

The Google for Education roadshow is a unique series of events giving a behind-the-scenes look at how schools around the country are transforming their approach to teaching and learning. The classroom environment in a Dome structure showing various classroom areas…

Project: The Art of Computer Science. Phase I We developed two site to accompany the project arrastre.org for the [arra]stre performance & data visualisations and the education site theartofcs.org There are 2 sides…

I am really looking forward to this sold out event. Which is an informal working meeting including representatives from Computing at School (CAS), OCR and the Mozilla Foundation. We’ll be focusing on how Open Badges can be used to credential some CAS activity – including teacher professional development.…

CAScade: Online CPD from CAS Computing at School. Today’s hangout: The draft PoS Computing: Computing What is an algorithm: A formula or set of steps for solving a particular problem. To be an algorithm, a set of rules must be…

Next Up Westminster Briefing. The other Thursday I was invited to speak bout the content of the curriculum with a focus on Key stage 2. It might seem odd to ask an A level teacher to discuss what is happening…

Lessons for Innovators was a lunchtime talk at NESTA. If you have never been, as I hadn’t, I was impressed by their ‘cool’ offices. Obviously not of a par with Google Cool but definitely cool. The space was well designed…

What a year I am self-professed geek and huge sci-fi fan. My teaching allows me to use sci-fi examples and technological innovations to engage and educate students. On January 11th I was quoted in the Guardian (front page article) in…